Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

November 25, 2025

3 months ago

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise.

January 7, 2025

1 year ago

A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.

February 27, 2025

12 months ago

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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